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This year's Yale Rugby Alumni Weekend, the Eighth Annual, will be held in New Haven April 26-28. It's time to finalize your plans. Based upon the early responses Yale Aluni representatives anticipate a strong showing of both men's and women's alumni/ae. With this shaping up to be the best turnout ever it would help the organizers to get a firm commitment from those of you who will be attending.

Hosted by the Princeton University Men's and Women's Rugby Clubs, this year's New Jersey State Intercollegiate Rugby Championship will be at Rickerson Field on the West Windsor Campus on Washington Rd, between Route 1 and the center of Princeton. The public is welcome and admission and parking is free.

Andrew West scored Columbia's first try in their first game back after the spring tour. The score started after an errant Vassar pass was intercepted inside the Columbia 22.

The Women's Competitions Committee (Bill Lucas, Chair; Austin Hall; Emily Ogata; Pete Steinberg; and Roger Riley) developed the following playoff formats for USA Rugby Division I.

Division I includes a combination of postseason assignment for the automatic qualifying teams emerging from the eight eligible college conferences, and eight at-large opportunities for otherwise deserving and eligible teams.

BOULDER, Colo. – USA Rugby released today the preliminary spring schedule for their Women's Collegiate All-American Selection camps. Two new All-American Selection camps will be held in different regions of the country, replacing the previous Collegiate National All-Star Championship. A pool of eligible collegiate players will be invited to attend one of the two camps using nominations and coaching staff evaluations of individuals from all divisions of the college rugby community, as well as information given by scouts at collegiate championship events.

Princeton duplicated its 2011 feat of finishing 3^rd in the official USA Rugby Sevens championships with a convincing 17-7 victory over Texas. The team is coached by Emil Signes and Chris Ryan with some help from Hana Passen '12. The staff also includes Jody Schneider and manager/videographer Nida Leeuwenbergh '13.

The Dartmouth Men and the Princeton Women were the top finishers in the Ivy Championships held in Princeton NJ on November 10th and they will represent the Ivy Rugby Conference in the USA Rugby Collegiate 7s National Championship.